Why Are Plastic Parts Important in the Electrical Industry?

September 22, 2024

Plastics have revolutionized many aspects of our lives and the way we manufacture goods and provide services, including in the electrical industry. Plastics are routinely used in everything from housings and controls to timers, wiring, and components. They perform important jobs, including adding insulation, shielding, safety, strength, and protection.

Safety

Providing durable, flexible, highly effective insulation, various types of plastic resins are used across the electrical industry, including in high-voltage applications. From plastisol-coated bus bars, safety equipment, and electrical tools to PVC-coating wire, tap connectors, and bushings, plastics have greatly influenced the way goods and parts are manufactured.

Durability

With resistance to chemicals, impacts, abrasion, moisture, environmental exposure, and more, plastics form an effective, long-lasting, protective barrier between electrical parts and the people and objects around them. Sturdy plastics such as HDPE, used as conduit, can protect wires and buried cables from construction damage, utility work, burrowing animals, and other hazards.

Flexibility

Plastics offer literal flexibility, making them an excellent choice for coating wires which must bend and turn. Plastics also provide flexibility of use, with some resin formulations able to insulate or conduct electricity, and to meet other requirements related to rigidity, ultraviolet light resistance, mechanical strength, heat tolerance, temperature resistance, and many other qualities. Easily molded into nearly any shape, plastics can be used to easily meet any functional needs.

Accuracy

Many plastic resins can be used to create products and components quickly, with short lead time, and with a repeatable, high degree of accuracy, and fine tolerances can be achieved with many materials. 


At Bennett Plastics, we recognize the importance of manufacturing high quality plastics for the electrical industry and others, and show that understanding in our commitment to customer satisfaction and superior quality. Contact us today to see how we can partner with you to provide your plastics manufacturing solutions.

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